Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riot squads stormed Nowa Huta just one day after Roman Catholic church mediators had persuaded plant directors to negotiate with the strikers...
Recently, the prisoners successfully sued Suffolk County for failing to maintain the facility's physical plant, which, according to Williams, is "ready for the bulldozer." As a result of the suit, prisoners are locked up for extra hours to avoid health and safety problems, he says...
...real arguments have more to do with symbolism than logic. Adoption of the plant-closing provision would give organized labor one of its few legislative victories of recent years, and the AFL-CIO is going all out to win. It has threatened to withdraw its support of the whole bill if the plant- closing provision is stripped from it. Corporate and White House opponents fear not so much that the provision will do great damage in itself but that it will set a precedent for increasing Government regulation of business, which is anathema to Reagan's free-market philosophy. Some...
...other side, Gary Holmes, spokesman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, asserts that the plant-closing provision "will make our industries less competitive internationally . . . It injects rigidities into the system ((and)) makes it less flexible." But that does not explain why Japan, which has a notice system, and West Germany, where it is difficult to fire anyone, let alone close a whole plant, are competitive enough to force the U.S. to consider a sweeping trade bill...
...Reagan gets an earful on the Meese malaise at Justice. -- A squabble over plant shutdowns imperils the trade bill. -- Ferries are back...